Haweswater - Sarah Hall

It is 1936 in a remote dale in the old, northern county of Westmorland. When a man from Manchester arrives, spokesman for a vast industrial project to create a new reservoir, the villagers must come to terms with the act that this corner of Lakeland w ill be transformed. Jack Liggett, the Waterworks representative, begins a troubled and intense affair with Janet Lightburn from the village. A woman of force and strength of mind. her natural orthodoxy deeply influences him. Finally, in tragic circumstances, a remarkable, desperate act on Janet`s part attempts to restore the valley to its former state.